Focusing on the ecology of the classroom allows educators to intentionally create opportunities throughout the learning day to foster children’s early literacy and language skills.
Authored by
Authored by:
Leslie La Croix, Kimberly Sanders Austin, Christine Pegorraro Schull, Sara E. Miller, Julie K. Kidd
Because books are a gateway for children to learn more about themselves and others, it's important to create class libraries that celebrate differences and promote inclusivity.
Author Maria Beteta describes how an innocent question became an opportunity to explore powerful concepts such as identity, culture, self-perception, differences, and similarities that connect us all.
In this article, we share how reading experiences served as jumping off points for exploring how disability representation in children’s literature can be incorporated as an essential component of teacher preparation and children’s literacy learning.
In this essay, I share how my perceptions of my students’ capabilities—and my own—were deeply influenced by my identity as a White, gay, cis male from a rural college town.
Here, I share my experiences with culturally responsive teaching and inclusive practices, how aspects of my identity have influenced my work with children and other educators to honor, include, and celebrate our identities.
To empower our children to embrace their own identities and the diversity around them, we need to first engage in identity-affirming, self-reflective practices ourselves.
Feelings of being an imposter, along with the delicately woven systems of oppression that exist in schools, often stop educators from sharing their true identities.
The authors in this collection examine their own identities by looking at their histories; reflecting on how their identities that arise from group memberships influence their teaching.
Authored by
Authored by:
Barbara Henderson, Isauro M. Escamilla, Megina Baker, Amanda Branscombe, Maleka Donaldson, Debra Murphy, Andrew J. Stremmel
In this article, I present some key findings about how infants build the foundations of social connection through eye gaze and facial emotion processing.
